Certain Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

— Edgar Degas

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they…

— Philippe Halsman

It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he…

— Raymond Carver

“All things considered, I’ve learned more from talking to painters than talking to writers. Not that painters are smarter than writers, such is seldom…

— Tom Robbins

Portrait painters' mission is to portray people and the beauty of Creation. They should stay clear of ego.

— Igor Babailov

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

“Preoccupation with style will not produce it. No amount of editing and polishing will have any appreciable effect on the flavor of how a…

— Raymond Chandler

Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.

— Fay Weldon

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel…

— Nathalie Sarraute

To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does…

— Remy de Gourmont

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and…

— Oscar Wilde

It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are…

— Simone Weil